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Show NEWS REVIEW OF CURRENT EVENTS Sixty-Seventh Congress Comes to an End After Passing Rural Credits Bill. FARM BLOC IS VICTORIOUS Ship 8ubsldy Measure Killed Strang Situation Created by Harding' World Court Proposal Gar man Nationalists Preparing Prepar-ing to Fight French-Death French-Death of W. Bourk ' Cockran. By EDWARD W. PICKARD O O InUTTINQ aside all partisan, j ahip, what do you and your I acquaintance really think of j the achievement of the 81xty I seventh congress during it last J esslonf I WITH the passage of the rural credits bill the last bcshIoo of the Sixty-seventh congress practically practi-cally cloned Its business, and when final adjournment came thnt measure stood out as the one bljr accomplishment accomplish-ment of the lawmakers during the entire en-tire session. Of course, the uxunl supply sup-ply bills bad been put through, und one of them, for the army, unfurtunntely carried the usual pork feuture for rivers riv-ers and harbors, despite the efforts of the administration. Congress this time has done little which It ran point to with pride, and this Is mild without partisanship for both parties are to blame. The farm bloc, backed by Secretaries Hoover and Wallace, had Its wuy In the matter of farm credits legislation, for the Cupper bill as passed Included ths Important features of the Lenroot-jLadorson Lenroot-jLadorson bill which Secretary Mellon and many members of the house banking bank-ing and currency committee did not like. One amendment adopted by the house extends the life of the War Finance corporation until Jnnunry 31, 1024. During the debate on the measure meas-ure Representative Burton of Ohio denounced de-nounced the plan for the formntlon of Intermediate credit bnnks attached to ih federal land banks Involving the fise of $00,000,000 1" government funds as provided In the Lenroot-Anderson part of the composite bill. Too much borrowing and too much credit had been one of the causes of the difficulties difficul-ties of the fanner, he asserted. He said he spoke from experience as a banker during the wnr period. 9 PUESIDKXT HAUDINU'S pet, the ship subsidy bill, went to its death Wednesday neonlIng to schedule. The senate voted against recommitting It, put carried the motion of Senator Lndd of North Ihikota to proceed with the consideration of the house fllled-milk bill, which effectually disposed of the subsidy measure. Senator Curuwny of Arkansas introduced a bill which provides pro-vides that the shipping board shall turn over to states and municipalities any ships which the latter are willing to operate, with a view to developing trade from particular ports, lie said he believed that the shipping board planned to punish senators who have been hostile to the subsidy bill by withdrawing ships from trHilo routes In which thuy are especially Interested. Inter-ested. JNTKHKST was added to the proceedings pro-ceedings of the last week of congress con-gress by the development attending the President's attempt to have the United States become a member of the er-manent er-manent court of International Justice organized under the nus'lees of the League of Nations. In n message ask-1 lng for senate authority to net, the President pointed out that the I'nlted States had bad a conspicuous part In the original conception of the court, and added that "our deliberate public opinion of today is overwhelmingly In fuvor of our full participation, and the attending obligations of ir-nlntennncM." Immediately the old bum-h (,f lrrei--oncllii'iles In the senate declared their opposition to the plan, threatening a filibuster. Senator Lodge summoned the foreign relations committee to consider con-sider It, and the committee Instead of voting addressed to the President a series of questions framed by Mr. Borah. These were embodied In this resolution: "That the President be requested to advise the committee whether he favors fa-vors an agreement obligating all powers, pow-ers, or governments, who are signers of the protocol creating the court, to sufv mlt all questions about which there Is a dispute and which cannot be settled by diplomatic efforts, relative to: "(a) The interpretation of treaties. "(b) Any question of International law. "(c) The existence of any fact which, if established, would constitute a breach of an international obligation. "(d) The nature or extent of reparation repar-ation to be made for the breach of an International obligation. "Secondly, If the President favors such an agreement, does he deem it advisable to communicate with the other powers to ascertain whether they are willing to obligate themselves as aforesaid? Or are they to Insist that such questions shall only be submitted In case both, or all, parties Interested agree to the submission after the controversy con-troversy arises?" Thereupon It was announced at the White House thnt the administration would wait until the next congress met before pressing for action on the President's request. The Democrats, meanwhile, were In high glee over the affair and hastened to tnke all political advantage of It. T?fey de-clured de-clured they would endeavor to force a vote on tha mutter before adjournment adjourn-ment to order to put the senators on record. AT THIS writing It seems probable that the senate will refuse to confirm con-firm several appointments made by the President, the most Important being that of James O. McNary to be controller con-troller of the currency. There was no apparent opposition to the aptoInt-ment aptoInt-ment of Mondcll of Wyoming to be a member of the war finance corporation and that of Towner of Iowa to be governor gov-ernor of Porto KIco. Among other appointments ap-pointments of the week by the President Presi-dent were those of Prig. Gen. Frank T. Illnes as director of the veterans' bureau bu-reau and Klehard M. Tobln of San Francisco as minister to the Netherlands. Nether-lands. Mr. Harding fn Tuesday made the expected changes In his cabinet. Post-muster Post-muster General Work was made secre-tary secre-tary of the Interior to succeed Mr. Fall, and was himself succeeded by Hurry S. New of Indiana. These nominations nom-inations the senate promptly continue con-tinue d. CHANCELLOR CUNO of Germany finds himself between the Devil and the deep sea. On one side the Socialists are pressing him to check forcible opisisltlon to the French In the Hubr nud to do all in his power to Induce the French to withdraw, fouling that long continued occupation occupa-tion will lead to another European war. On the other side the Nationalists, Nation-alists, now Including the Monarchists, are not only demanding that the opposition oppo-sition continue, but are organizing the nucleus of a national army and are stirring tip all kinds of trouble for the French In the Ituhr. Ouno told hi cabinet thnt if Germany let up In her resistance to the French there probably prob-ably would be a revolution and that it was Impossible to start overtures for a settlement now. It wns believed In I'.erlln that the government wus seriously seri-ously considering the Idea of asking the United States to intervene. There Is no doubt that the Nationalists, Nation-alists, headed by Ludendorf ami backed by von Hlndenhurg. are creating a dangerous dan-gerous situation. The field marshal Is quoted as having said to a meeting of tbe Hanover Agricultural league: "We will never forget that we are all Germans Ger-mans and must do our duty, and that, if necessary, we will fight even until the last Hag Is torn to ple. es and the last swol'd blade shuttered. It Is better bet-ter to perish In lienor than to live in disgrace." prince Wllhelm Frledrlch von Llppe wus arrested In Dusseblorf by the French who said they found on him document showing thnt he Is a mem-; her of a secret organisation In the! Huhr uhi.M! mission Is to foment trouble with the forces of occupation.' In the process of dlsnrwiiig the green, police the French have deported larg numbers of them and have placed many of the officers under arrest., They met with the stubbornest opposition In lioclium. Both the French and tba Belgians have seized large sums of German money In the occupied region on the ground that It was sent to help In the fomenting of trouble. General Degoutte announced measures for collecting col-lecting the 40 per cent tax on Ruhr coal and said refusal to meet this obligation obli-gation would result In the court martial mar-tial of the offenders and the seizure of coal at the mines. Shipment of coal to Holland and Switzerland art not subject to the assessment POLAND and Lithuania agreed m a truce In their squabble over the neutral Bone, but it was not very strictly observed during the week. Th Poles claim to be trying to avoid any clashes and assert that German officers are leading their opponents. There are reports that the Germans In East Prussia are arming to retake Memel, and other reports that the Poles are planning to seize East Prussia. The chances for serious trouble In that region are still excellent. ELLIOTT WADSWOItTH Is In Paris for the American treasury trying to collect the $250,000,000 due th United States for the upkeep of our army on the Ithlne, and reparations commissioners of the allies, as financial finan-cial experts, are examining the question. ques-tion. Iteally there doesn't seem much to examine, for It was agreed after the armistice that Germany should pay the expenses of the forces of occupation occupa-tion before anything else in the way of reparations, and the allies already have collected these costs. CZECHOSLOVAKIA comes forward as the first of the continental conti-nental European nations to plan definitely defi-nitely for the payment of its war debt to the United States. In its budget for 1923 Is an item of nenrly $4.000,. 000 to apply on thut debt, which is e timoted at about $100,000,000. Foreign Minister Penes says a commission will come to Washington soon for the purpose pur-pose of settling discrepancies, and that his country hopes to get as good terms as ony allied debtor to America. That Finland also Intends to pay the United States Is shown by the fact that Dr. Axel Leonard, the Finnish minister In Washington, hns begun preliminary pre-liminary conversations with Secretary of the Treasury Mellon on the matter of refunding Finland's debt, which amounts to more thnn $3,000,000, with $1,150,000 of accrued interest BY AN order of the federal railroad labor board Issued Wednesday, wage Increases of two cents an hour were awarded to (55,000 railway freight handlers and laborers and the eight-hour eight-hour day wns restored to all of th 821,000 members of the Brotherhood of Hallway and Steamship Clerks, Freight Handlers, Express and Station Employees. Em-ployees. The decision disposed of th hist of a batch of wage cases that had been pending for months, anil follows one of neveral weeks ago. In which the board restored the eight-hour eight-hour day to 15,000 railway signalmen. The wage Increase amounts to half of the decrease In pay ordered by th board last J.ily. GOVEUNOU BLAINE of Wisconsin saved the state's National Guard from being abolished, sending to ths legislature a special message praising the efficiency of the organization and urging its continuance at a strength to meet national requirements. It Is Interesting to note that while Senator La Follette declared ills opposition t the bill abolishing the guard, Mrs. a Follette announced that she favored the measure. WltOUKKE COCKItAN, congress man from New York, died sud denly Thursday ns the result of stroke of apoplexy. The previous evening eve-ning he had pnrllclpnted In s lively debute de-bute on the farm credits bill, lie celfr , bruted hi sixty-ninth birthday Wedne j day. Mr. Cockran was a famous ortttof j of the old school and the Democrats, elected Mm to congress several times, ll wns prominent In the party comv rlls and was o familiar and popula fig'ire lit natlonnl conventions. In recent re-cent years be gS"e the Irish peopl! valuable help In their fflruiU for Ir dependent |